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Program (Tentative January 2010)

T-6, First Floor, Meng Wah Complex
The University of Hong Kong

DAY 1 March 12, 2010 (Friday)

9:00 - 9:30	Registration
9:30 - 9:45	Opening Remarks
9:45 - 10:15	Photo-taking and setup
10:15 - 11:45	PANEL 1: Political Ecology of the City Shubhra Gururani Department of Social Anthropology, York University India's "Millennial City" Unmapped: Sketching a Politics of "Flexible Planning" and Missing Sewers in Gurgaon, India D. Asher Ghertner Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley Nuisance Talk and the Propriety of Property: Middle Class Discourses of a Slum-free Delhi Will Glover International Institute, The University of Michigan The Rural-Urban Continuum as Ecological Milieu in Twentieth Century South Asia Discussant: George C.S. Lin Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong
11:45 - 13:15	Lunch (On campus)
13:15 - 14:45	PANEL 2: The Civic and the Public in Urban Environmental Conflicts Sapana Doshi Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley Resettlement Ecologies: Spatial and Environmental Politics in Mumba's Urban Frontier Amita Baviskar Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi Enclave Rivers and Real Estate: Rethinking Urban Ecology in a "World-class" City Lalit Batra Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York People, Places and Institutions in an Aspiring "World Class" City Discussant: Solomon Benjamin Urban Research & Policy Program National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India
14:45 - 15:00	Tea Break
15:00 - 16:05	PANEL 3: Built Environments and Green Design Anne Rademacher Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University Producing Green Expertise: Place, Pedagogy, and Sustainable Architecture in Mumbai Shekhar Krishnan Program in the History and Anthropology of Science & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mapping the Maximum City Roshni Udyavar Yehuda Rachana Sansad’s Institute of Environmental Architecture Mainstreaming Sustainable Design & Planning in Cities of India Discussant: Sarah Liao, Senior Advisor to Vice-Chancellor The University of Hong Kong
18:30 - 21:30	Welcoming Dinner The Square, 4/F, Exchange Square II, Central

DAY 2 March 13, 2010 (Saturday)

09:30 - 11:00	PANEL 4: The Social Life of Urban Infrastructure Nikhil Anand Department of Anthropology, Stanford University Infrapolitics: On Abject Water and Its Multiple Systems Vinay Gidwani Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences The City University of New York Poverty as Geography: The Spatial Politics of Waste in Delhi Karen Coelho Madras Institute of Development Studies Nithya Raman Centre for Development Finance The Poor and the Objectionable: Habitat Negotiations in and around Chennai Discussant: Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan Department of Anthropology, Yale University
12:00. - 13:15	Lunch
14:00 - 17:00	Visit to Civic Exchange and city walk in Central District
17:00 - 19:30	Tour around the Peak area
19:00 - 21:00	Dinner

DAY 3 March 14, 2010 (Sunday)

09:30 - 12:30	Wrap-up discussion for speakers
12:30	End of meeting

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